Weekend Randoms 7/08-09

pebbledam · July 2017

Happy weekend! What's on your agenda today?

KariAnn323 · July 2017

We have a couple that we're friends with who coming to visit from out of town. They're taking our old buffet because we inherited my grandma's credenza so we decided to make a weekend of it. She and I are going to go antiquing this afternoon while our husbands play with little toy soldiers (Age of Sigmar for fellow geeks). Then tonight we'll all go out to dinner and play some board games.

petethecat · July 2017

That sounds like a fun day @KariAnn323!

I've got a very exciting day of getting caught up on laundry planned so that DH can pack for his week long work trip tomorrow. Tomorrow is his birthday and we're having the ILs over for dinner. I'm making Cajun shrimp and quinoa casserole, salad, and a dark chocolate cake with dark chocolate whipped cream frosting for that. I'll probably make the frosting today so I don't have as much to do tomorrow afternoon.

jrm_14 · July 2017

@KariAnn323. Antiquing is,fun, especially with friends. Have fun!

@kbamomma33. Holy yum.

Random: anyone ever had serious bruxism/teeth grinding? As in chewed through even the professional mouth guards numerous times, had tooth breakage, etc? What helped?

ETA: We are headed out of town to have lunch with my parents & go to a wedding this evening. It is in a town In lived for better part of a decade, love & miss it, so I'm pretty excited.

charlestonchew · July 2017

@KariAnn323 sounds fun!
@kbamomma33 that sounds so delicious

fishsticks-n-custard · July 2017

Morning ladies!

@KariAnn323 Oh man, I love antiquing. I haven't gone in so long. Used to help restore old furniture when I was in high school. Mom taught me to refinish, etc. I hope you have a blast. Sounds like an awesome visit.
@jrm_14 No help here, just sympathy. That sounds awful.

I work overnight tonight but off during the day today. Hubbie let me sleep in until 9 am and I was so thankful. Didn't get home until midnight last night and wasn't asleep until 1 am. He's going for a run then we're going to go looking for a new TV stand, something with doors hopefully!

izza2 · July 2017

H and my dad are outside welding a new bed on my dad's dump truck.
I'm doing house work and watching Mr. Popper's penguins.

When H takes a break, I'm going to make him drag down the two bins of Playboy magazines that were left with the house so I can see how much they're all worth.
No kidding: we have two 60 Gal. plastic bins in the attic full of Playboy magazines.

hedgepig · July 2017

@jrm_14 I'm a teeth grinder - bad enough that I'be ground through 2 invisalign retainers and a professional mouthguard. Never broken a tooth, and it doesn't usually cause me problems, but it wakes up MH/keeps him awake. As the professional mouthguards are so expensive, and we don't have dental insurance, I've been using some cheap guards from Walmart that are kinda squishy, and they work pretty well. I have yet to find something that stops me from grinding in the first place though.... hopefully someone else here may have better thoughts?
@izza2 We totally have a big box of vintage Playboys too! MH got them at a garage sale with the idea of maybe selling them on eBay someday. You should report back and let us know if you find any rare/valuable ones!
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AFM, we're at our friend's house, building decks to play Magic: the Gathering. Any MTG players out there?

izza2 · July 2017

@hedgepig - Lol, I'll probably be sharing some of the stories once I start going through them.

pebbledam · July 2017

@KariAnn323 - Let us know if you find anything cool while you are out antiquing!
@jrm_14 - I get the cheap guards from target, too. I go through phases where sometimes I grind and sometimes I don't. Haven't broken a tooth yet, not no really have no suggestions on how to stop it.
@izza2 - I'm excited to hear about what they're worth too! I wonder if they were intentionally left up in your attic!
@hedgepig - MH plays MTG and occasionally he talks me into playing with him.

jrm_14 · July 2017

@izza2. Ha, hopefully they're in good condition

@fishsticks-n-custard. Good luck finding a new stand!

@hedgepig. I stopped buying the ones from the dentist bc I go through them so easily. I have one of those moldable ones from Wal-Mart that actually has lasted longer. I go to the dentist this week &want to have a plan. She just lectures me & tells me to stop. I've had 3 other dentist do the same. There has to be something when it damages teeth/expidites tooth loss that can help.

holli0801 · July 2017

Like @kbamomma33 I have lots of laundry planned haha...
we just got home from vacay yesterday so I'm tired, and just have things around the house to catch up on. DH works all weekend, but I plan to get out tomorrow to do something fun. TBD.

Avrilmai · July 2017

@kbamomma33 that dinner sounds delicious. Is there a recipe you can share?

@KariAnn323 enjoy your visit and antiquing

@izza2 we found boxes of playboys in the crawl space in our old apartment. Most of them were from the 80s and none were valuable, unfortunately. Eventually they found there way to the recycling bin. I hope you have better luck!

AFM, We're planning to go watch the US men's soccer team match at a local sports bar this afternoon.

petethecat · July 2017

@Avrilmai Here is the casserole. I've made it before and it's really good!
https://www.thisgalcooks.com/cajun-shrimp-quinoa-casserole/

Here's the cake I'm doing. I haven't made this one before, but I'm excited because it has dark chocolate and coffee extract in it. I'm thinking that it will be great with a glass of red wine:
https://lovelylittlekitchen.com/dark-chocolate-cake-with-whipped-cream-frosting/

It sounds like you have a fun afternoon planned. Enjoy it!

becausescience · July 2017

@kbamomma33 That cake looks amazing! Coffee is always a great add to anything chocolate.

@fishsticks-n-custard Good luck furniture shopping! We just got new stuff for our living room and I discovered I really don't care for furniture shipping.

Sounds like a few of you have fun things planned. Meanwhile I'll be weeding. Maybe taking a walk later.

izza2 · July 2017

So we've separated them by year, and then put them in order by month.
These range from 1964 to 1999. Mostly Playboys, but also Penthouse, oui, dude, and other magazines I've never even heard of.
I'm only through a few years, but so far most are worth just a few dollars, while others are worth $20.
Even if we sold them for $2-3 a piece, we're still looking at a few hundred dollars.

I can't wait to go through the rest of the attic.

jsnakehole · July 2017

@izza2 That's a pretty amazing find- it would definitely make an interesting study of how trends influenced men's magazines over time.

@kbamomma33 that cake sounds amazing! I want to bake, but I'm feeling too lazy/warm to put the oven on.

I'm just cleaning today, but I'm going to the beach with friends tomorrow. My hair is super curly right now, which I hate wearing in public, but it makes no sense to straighten it before the beach. Normally I would braid it into two pigtails, but I've gotten too many sunburns on my scalp to do that again.

Also, it's July 8th and I have no idea what grade I'll be teaching next year, but I've already seen a million ideas I want to try out in my classroom.

lurvleybunchococonuts · July 2017

Just finished cherry picking and now waiting on the ILs to go fishing, they have disappeared.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/ys/u1cgedgpdyu3.jpg

ETA: on mobile so love tits

& cherry pic

leekat14 · July 2017

Little bit of work today. Totally hungover today. Went out with my girlfriends and I'm going to pay for a while for this!

holli0801 · July 2017

@lurvleybunchococonuts great photo! Have fun!

mangoandguava · July 2017

@lurvleybunchococonuts wooooooowow that's gorgeous. Now I just want to go look at a cherry grove. I hate cherries though so I'll let people who like them do the picking.

i just lied to a friend and told him all my pants are in the wash. I don't want to do anything today, and if he ropes me into doing stuff, I will literally be doing things all day.

becausescience · July 2017

Yay weeding is done! Last year we just let everything go to seed and there were tons of mini cilantro plants everywhere. I felt bad pulling them, but one plant is really enough for us. And I probably should have spaced my tomatoes out a bit more.

Before:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/ho/bn8ijozhv2vx.jpg

After:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/2b/uephocxkb7fk.jpg

@izza2 Hopefully you can sell those for some extra $. I'm interested to hear what else you find.

FFSC: I've never tried weed and I'm not even sure where I'd get any. Maybe if we visit CO someday I'll try an edible.

izza2 · July 2017

@becausescience - My FIL grows his own weed.

We definitely need to have a yard sale this summer. Or I have to take pictures and post a bunch of stuff online. There are book shelves, chairs, books, Christmas decorations, TVs, desks, mattresses, trunks, dressers... So much stuff in that attic that I've never gone through.

leekat14 · July 2017

@becausescience Your garden looks awesome!!

lurvleybunchococonuts · July 2017

@becausescience ditto what @leekat14 said! I'm super jealous of your garden! I just have 2 small raised beds and a few containers

leekat14 · July 2017

@lurvleybunchococonuts I have some veggies in containers and a bed of perennials. I'm hoping I can eventually have it filled and not have to do a lot of stuff with it...I never have time!

doxiemoxie212 · July 2017

I just ordered 15 colors of post-its in hopes of helping to kick DH's bar study into high gear. I'm going to go through his lesson plan, divide by topic, and put each "assignment" (video, essay, etc) on a post-it on the wall. Every time he completes something, he takes the post-it off the wall. Hooray!

....Guys, I don't have any kids, but I'm basically a mother.

Image: https://media.giphy.com/media/wPOARRtwuFG0/giphy.gif

(In his defense, he's been working 14+ hour days for the last two weeks, and hasn't actually had any days off at all since early June, but like, seriously, stop scrolling Twitter in your down time.)

jsnakehole · July 2017

@doxiemoxie212 I saw a thing on Pinterest today where you write a reward on a big piece of posterboard, and then cover it with post-its. On each post-it is a different goal or accomplishment, and you take the post it off when you meet that goal. When you take off all of the post-its, you get the reward.

Of course the goals would be very different, but that could be a fun way to help your husband study! I'm definitely doing it if I have first grade next year...and probably to get my husband in the swing of doing housework when he gets back from his deployment.

doxiemoxie212 · July 2017

@jsnakehole ooo I like that! Added element of motivation!

KariAnn323 · July 2017

@pebbledam I got more Pyrex! DH is sooooo thrilled. I feel like I did good though. I limited it to one piece and the actual dealer was there and marked it down to $14 for me. The pattern is Horizon Blue which is the commemorative pattern for the moon landing.

petethecat · July 2017

@KariAnn323 Pretty!!

pebbledam · July 2017

@KariAnn323 - I have always loved pyrex, but your finds and that website you shared awhile back makes me want to start a collection, which I'm sure MH would love as much as YH!

KariAnn323 · July 2017

@pebbledam just remind him that it's cheaper than his miniatures

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